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Many phones support a second line with an SIM/eSIM setup. As most people still use a SIM in Australia, I wonder if having a second line with an eSIM on a very basic pre-paid plan would work for those people.

In theory, you could have line 1 forward to line 2 when 'unreached'. Of course you'd want the second line to be different network.

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As far as I know you only get and eSIM with a full on plan with the 3 big telcos. So all prepaid users can't get an eSIM

That's true, even Telstra was slow getting to it (was only available for prepaid services for a long while). I think Aussie telcos need a bit of kick to really go in on eSIM, such as Apple releasing eSIM only iPhone's in the USA. You can't even get a add-on SIM for an Apple/Android Smartwatch from anyone except the big three here still.

It would be good to have regulation surrounding eSIM, because telcos will always find a way to make it awful. E.g. able to do 24x7, max 1hr processing time, no cost to user, able to do via self-service options.

I have a Telstra prepaid esim.

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